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Following are some informative websites on adoption. They provide information on the known long-term effects of separating family members, adoption reforms implemented in some countries as well as information about reunited families. Some also provide lists of search angels or support groups for searching for family members ("birth family") or adoptees.

* Note: The term "birthmother" is used here for search engine placement ONLY. No mother is an incubator or a "birth thing" - she is a mother.

OriginsNSW - Australia - Adoption history, effects on mental health and more. "Origins Inc. was founded in 1995 by a small group of mothers who, having lost their children to adoption, were being continuously re-traumatised each time so-called experts and health professional minimised and invalidated the severe emotional anguish, trauma, and grief left in the wake of their adoption experience, assuming that we, as mothers, should have accepted the loss of our living babies - as if it were possible to do that."

Origins Queensland - Australia Origins Queensland is a group of women who lost babies to adoption. The focus is on the need to address past adoption practices, and on support and validation of the mothers' loss.

Origins South Australia Supporting people separated by adoption. Adoption chat, message board and much more.

Origins Tasmania Supporting people separated by adoption.

OriginsUSA Founded in 1996 by a group of mothers dedicated to the preservation of natural families. The objectives are support and also an inquiry into unethical adoption practices.

Origins Canada Origins Canada is a support and advocacy group for for people separated from family members by adoption, including natural mothers and fathers, natural relatives, and adopted persons. "We are calling for an inquiry into illegal, unethical and inhumane adoption practices in Canada: practices which violated basic human rights".

Canadian Council of Natural Mothers - An online support, advocacy and discussion forum for members. A united voice for mothers who have lost children to adoption.

Trackers International - in the UK. Trackers International is the independent tracing agency and specialist research unit founded on the principles of justice. Justice for the hundreds of thousands of unmarried mothers who were denied the right to keep their babies. Justice for all the adoptees who were denied the right to be raised by their natural mothers.

Trackers International traces and reunites families separated by adoption.

Adoption Loss - Natural Parents Network of Ireland Adoption Loss is a voluntary group offering support services for mothers and fathers who have lost children to adoption. Includes contact preference registry information.

Adoption Ireland - AdoptionIreland, the Adopted Peoples Association (APA), offers a wide range of resources for adopted people with an Irish connection and their natural families.

Magdalene Laundries - Seeking justice and memorial for those women who were incarcerated in the magdalene laundries. (See the movie Magdalene Sisters and the associated doucmentary on the same DVD.)

"Birth"mothers.info - Adoption Support Group Listing and Research

"The first myth that I believed, which gave me a very negative and destructive imprint as a child, was that I was not wanted and not loved. As well as creating hatred towards my mother, it created a sense of loyalty towards my adoptive parents, and the feeling that I needed to behave, and be good in order to not repeat the same mistakes and be rejected again. These are dangerous beliefs to hold. Not only are they untrue, but they are emotionally and spiritually very damaging." - Stephen Fitzpatrick

Empty Arms Adoption Support Group - for natural moms "birthmoms" who had no subsequent children.

"Although I had dreamed of having my own family, after I relinquished my baby, at the age of 20, there was such a deep seated terror in me of the devastating loss I associated with pregnancy that I made sure that I never became pregnant again. ...My son is now 37 years old and hates me. What's ironic about all of this is that I loved him so much that I gave him up so he would have love, not understanding that my love was the only love he really needed. And now I understand that his love for his real mother was all I really needed, and both of us have been denied that fundamental and basic life force. I have tried to reach him...."

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* Note: The term "birthmother" is used here for search engine placement ONLY. No mother is an incubator or a "birth thing" - she is a mother.

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